According to Arturo ‘Tux’ Vasquez, Chief Executive Officer at the Port of Belize, the labor law mandates that there be a minimum of nine hours of down time for persons working within a twenty-four hour period. While both parties were deadlocked on the issue, CWU President Evan ‘Mose’ Hyde says that they subsequently requested a […]
Since both parties are at a logjam, it is expected that Prime Minister Dean Barrow, who is also Minister of Labor, will have to intervene in the matter. Vasquez cites the Settlement of Disputes Essential Services Act which permits stevedores to give advance notice of industrial action; however, he also says that it is subject […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice today dismissed an appeal brought by convicted murderer Dionicio Salazar. Found guilty of the 2010 murder of Marlon River, Salazar first appealed the decision of the Supreme Court in the Court of Appeal which affirmed the decision. He then took the matter to the Caribbean Court of Justice which also […]
Dionicio Salazar was given a life sentence for the murder of Marlon Rivera. River was fatally shot on June thirteenth, 2010 in San Ignacio near the police station. His attorney Anthony Sylvestre says that the court will resentence Salazar. Anthony Sylvestre, Attorney for Dionicio Salazar “They had allowed this appeal in relation to sentence […]
This afternoon in San Pedro, Rufino Hernandez, one of two persons suspected of the brutal murder of Caye Caulker resident Christopher Meighan, was arraigned in the magistrate’s court. He joins Belizean/American Lalman Logan at the Belize Central Prison where he is also on remand after being indicted for the same offence. Meighan was found butchered […]
Sixty-year-old Salvadoran National Nicolas Guevara is a free man tonight. He had been charged, convicted and sentenced for the murder of thirty-six-year-old Marcus Antonio Tzul. He was sentenced to life in prison on December 1993. His sentence was reduced this morning to twenty-five years by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin but because Guevara had served for […]
A British national was arraigned this morning in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court for an alleged kidnapping. He is sixty-three-year-old Roger Wallis, a well-known businessman in the community, who drives a white van. Last week, three siblings alleged that a perp attempted to kidnap them. They claimed that they fought him off when he tried to […]
There was a murder and shooting in Orange Walk for which there are more questions than answers. Twenty-five-year-old Samuel Castro was shot early on Sunday morning. He was running an errand on Muffles Street when two men on a motorcycle approached him and fired several shots at him. Castro was hit five times, once to […]
Less than five minutes after the shooting of Samuel Castro, Orange Police responded to another shooting. This time the victim was twenty-three-year-old Justin Diaz. Diaz was at the corner of Sapodilla and Zericote Streets, when one of two men on motorcycles opened fire. While it is not known if the shooting of Diaz has any […]
Two severed legs were retrieved from the Belize River over the weekend. The gruesome discovery was made on Saturday by Coastguard and police search parties scouring the area of the river at Warrie Head and further downstream. Since Friday, residents of Ontario had been conducting searches after a teen from the village went missing on […]
Before noon on Friday, the body of Caye Caulker chef, Christopher Meighan was found in a room at the Central Park Hotel in San Pedro. Meighan had been viciously stabbed all over his body. He was seen entering the hotel room accompanied by two men; police have now apprehended both. On Saturday, U.S. national Lalman […]
Kevin Bodden is believed to have been the triggerman in the execution of Ghost Town boss Kendis Flowers back in March. It took investigators six months to crack the sensational case and bring in their suspect. But Bodden did not remain in police custody for too long. In fact, the twenty-five-year-old escaped from detention by […]
A thirty-two-year-old resident of Santa Elena Town lost his life in the early hours of Saturday morning after being knocked down by a vehicle on Eden Drive. Oscar Coc was reportedly walking along that stretch of road when a motorist ran him over. The driver of the vehicle, identified as George Dawson, told police that […]
There is a murder in San Pedro that police are investigating. The body of a young man was retrieved from a hotel room on Barrier Reef Drive around midday today. He is a U.S. national who resides in Caye Caulker and has been identified as Christopher Meighan. According to reports from the island, surveillance camera […]
A sixty-three-year-old British national is in custody at the Belmopan police station. It is believed that he was the perpetrator of a foiled kidnapping of an eight-year-old boy on George Price Avenue in the outskirts of Belmopan. The minor was heading home along with his two older siblings when a man described as Caucasian attempted […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow returned to the country on Thursday, but he was unable to attend today’s House Meeting since he is still recovering from surgery. So, Acting Prime Minister Patrick Faber led the proceedings on the government side. A number of bills were introduced. The main bill; however, was for the settlement of an […]
The Opposition hotly debated the six million U.S.-dollar settlement agreement. John Briceño led the charge questioning why government wants to settle a U.S.-based judgment when it had ignored a judgement in Belize’s courts. According to Briceño’s calculations, the government’s tax claim with penalties and interest amount to twenty-eight million dollars, which it is giving up […]
When the NEWCO deal collapsed, the Belize Airport Concession group was granted an agreement to manage the P.G.I.A. The Belmopan Area rep John Saldivar raised the issue of who was in that group, but the former Prime Minister and Fort George Area Rep Said Musa shut him up. Caribbean Shores area rep Kareem drove home […]
The Belize National Teachers Union called a press conference today to share its position on the Ministry of Education’s finalized list which was released at the start of the new school year in September. It involves the re-categorizations of schools for hardship and rural allowances as well as time off to collect salary. Today, the […]
On Thursday, the Ministry of Education made a number of claims against the B.N.T.U., including that the union didn’t respond to information made available to them nor did they raise concerns. Today, the B.N.T.U. hit back at the ministry for calling them liars. They produced emails to support their account of what did and did […]
Today, the U-Report was launched at the B.T.L. Park in Belize City. It is a free SMS social monitoring tool designed to gather information to address issues that affect youth. Once the data is captured, it will be used policy and decision makers to tailor policies and programs to meet the needs of the population. […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow is back in the country. He was in Cuba for spinal surgery which he underwent on September fourth. The PM arrived at the Philip Goldson International Airport on an American Airline flight. He was picked up by his driver and swiftly departed the airport. But he did make a stop while […]
There is a report of the alleged kidnapping of an eight-year-old student on Monday. It happened in Belmopan while the boy was heading home from school along with his older brother and sister. The children told their mother that they were approached by a man in a white van offering them a ride home. The […]
A policeman and seven B.D.F. soldiers, who were jointly charged for the crime of murder but had the charge dismissed on Wednesday, will be re-arrested and the charge levied against them again. This is what Minister of State for National Security Elodio Aragon Junior told the media this morning. The men, police officer Lennart Cajun; […]
Since embattled President Sapna Budhrani was placed on administrative leave, Doctor John Morris, the Director of the Institute of Archaeology has been at the helm of the statutory body. It was at his desk that the findings of an external audit by Baker Tilly Hulse landed and was later presented to the Board at a […]
